Tag: IT workers

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: 5 tips for secure AI success

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-5-tips-secure-ai-success/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: 5 tips for secure AI success Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for March 2025. Today, Royal Hansen, vice-president, Engineering, and Nick Godfrey, Office of the CISO senior director, discuss how new AI Protection capabilities in Security Command Center fit in with…

  • The Register: Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/arizona_woman_laptop_farm_guilty/ Source: The Register Title: Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un Feedly Summary: 300+ US companies, 70+ individuals hit by the fraudsters An Arizona woman who created a “laptop farm" in her home to help fake IT workers pose as US-based employees has pleaded guilty in a…

  • Cloud Blog: Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/cybercrime-multifaceted-national-security-threat/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat Feedly Summary: Executive Summary Cybercrime makes up a majority of the malicious activity online and occupies the majority of defenders’ resources. In 2024, Mandiant Consulting responded to almost four times more intrusions conducted by financially motivated actors than state-backed intrusions. Despite this…

  • Slashdot: America’s IT Unemployment Rises To 5.7%. Is AI Hitting Tech Jobs?

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/02/09/1754229/americas-it-unemployment-rises-to-57-is-ai-hitting-tech-jobs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: America’s IT Unemployment Rises To 5.7%. Is AI Hitting Tech Jobs? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the rising unemployment rate in the U.S. information technology sector, attributing this trend partly to the increasing reliance on automation and artificial intelligence. It highlights how this…

  • Slashdot: FBI: North Korean IT Workers Steal Source Code To Extort Employers

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/24/1851209/fbi-north-korean-it-workers-steal-source-code-to-extort-employers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: FBI: North Korean IT Workers Steal Source Code To Extort Employers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses cyber threats posed by North Korean IT workers who exploit their access to steal proprietary source code and demand ransoms, highlighting the need for enhanced security measures…

  • Hacker News: Fourteen North Koreans Indicted for Fraudulent IT Worker Scheme and Extortions

    Source URL: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/fourteen-north-korean-nationals-indicted-carrying-out-multi-year-fraudulent-information Source: Hacker News Title: Fourteen North Koreans Indicted for Fraudulent IT Worker Scheme and Extortions Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text outlines the indictment of 14 North Korean nationals involved in conspiracies targeting U.S. companies, where they evaded sanctions and engaged in fraudulent IT work, identity theft,…

  • The Register: North Korea’s fake IT worker scam hauled in at least $88 million over six years

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/13/doj_dpkr_fake_tech_worker_indictment/ Source: The Register Title: North Korea’s fake IT worker scam hauled in at least $88 million over six years Feedly Summary: DoJ thinks it’s found the folks that ran it, and some of the ‘IT warriors’ sent out to fleece employers North Korea’s fake IT worker scams netted the hermit kingdom $88…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Microsoft shares latest intelligence on North Korean and Chinese threat actors at CYBERWARCON

    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/11/22/microsoft-shares-latest-intelligence-on-north-korean-and-chinese-threat-actors-at-cyberwarcon/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Microsoft shares latest intelligence on North Korean and Chinese threat actors at CYBERWARCON Feedly Summary: At CYBERWARCON 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence analysts will share research and insights on North Korean and Chinese threat actors representing years of threat actor tracking, infrastructure monitoring and disruption, and their attack…